What ๐บ๐ธ means
The flag of the United States: fifty white stars on blue, with thirteen red and white stripes. It means the USA, Americans or American pride.
Everywhere on the Fourth of July with ๐ and ๐ฆ
, during elections, and when Team USA plays. People also use it ironically with "freedom" or "'Merica" to joke about American excess.
Some sellers and travelers use it simply to mean "US-based" or "ships from the US".
Facts
Flag: United States ๐บ๐ธ is an emoji in the flags category, under country flag. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :us: or :flag_united_states:. People also look for it with words like โUSโ or โflagโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
flags ยท Unicode 6.0